That's almost like the experience I had with the S500 coupe last weekend. Youngest boy, who is the primary driver of the car, complained about a shimmy or vibration in the steering wheel at nearly all speeds. He also remarked about the car "waddling" when coming to a stop at low speeds. That is, the rear of the car seemed to move side to side as it slowed.
I recalled experiencing both of these issues to some extent when I drove the car, but attributed it to the rear suspension possibly needing a rebuild. Interestingly, tire wear was perfect, with no indication that there was anything amiss in the suspension or steering. I took the car to get it aligned two weekends ago, but the shop couldn't break the right side tie rod adjuster loose. I got a couple of tie rod assemblies from our sexy parts supplier and installed them on Saturday. Took the car in for another go at an alignment on Sunday, with no problems. I spoke with the tech who did the alignment, who told me the rear was really out of whack. The printout showed this as well. Drove the car home and found no shimmy, shake or waddle. I texted my son after he drove the car back to school on Sunday night. "It's like floating on a cloud!" Dan Sent from my iPad > On Oct 9, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > I'll take this quiet moment between off topic posts to mention that with new > rear lower control arm bushings my '84 190D has become an absolute delight to > drive. I took it on the 59 mile run to work today and it is again the > wonderful european motor it should have been but never was when I got it. > > Unfortunately I'd been kind of ignoring it since it wasn't any real fun to > drive and now has a bunch of issues including bad tinworm. I need to order > some new injector nozzles from our ever-so-sexy parts supplier. > > The listing for nozzles has a cutoff for engine number but the part number > appears to be the same. How do I get my engine number? This is something I've > been vaguely interested in but never gotten around to checking... > > -Curt > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has > no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
